Archives for January 2009

For those of you that can’t get enough of WordPress, I suggest you check out WordPress Weekly, a great podcast hosted by Jeff Chandler and currently co-hosted by Canadian, Keith Murray as they talk about all things WordPress. Tonight, at 8pm EST, if you head on over to Talkshoe, you can listen live and actually […]

Recently, the subject of applications relating to blogging, development, and more have come across my desk more than once. The first was my own attempt at writing a free college software guide on College Crunch which then was noticed by Online College which built upon the list, adding more things that students (but really anyone) […]

Over on Website Host Reviews Firewall blog, they’ve written out a great little article relating to StumbleUpon, and why you might not being seeing any traffic from the traffic pushing community. It covers voting practices and trends, being banned, and how to avoid being banned. With each section broken down into the basic ideas, it […]

I am thinking about getting a redesign of Blogging Pro done. We’ve been using this theme for over a year now, and I think it is starting to show its age, especially since we’ve given the theme out for free for nearly a year as well. I was trying to think about the pro’s and […]

I don’t know how much credence I give to the idea that WordPress is inherently insecure by default, but I do understand that people want to take steps to further protect their blogs. Smashing Magazine has put up an article relating to securing your WordPress admin, and while this won’t make your blog secure if […]

NetTUTS have put up a great post on speeding up a website, but you could easily translate that into speeding up your WordPress blog. While these might not increase your speed like caching or anything else like that, it is still a very useful guide for compressing images, CSS, and finding errors. If perfomance is […]

For the last few months, I have been working on College Crunch, a site devoted to online colleges, college life, and more. When we started the project, I knew it was going to be large in the number of pages and whatnot it used, but we decided to go with WordPress because it was a […]

If you have had issues creating a footer that hangs at the bottom of the page, no matter how short or long the content above it is, then check out this new CSS Sticky Footer method. The advantage of this method over previous methods is that it doesn’t require an extra “push” div to get […]

WordPress was conceived six years and two days ago on Matt Mullenweg’s blog. Many celebrate its first release which was in May, but Matt and Mike Little recently posted about the creation of WordPress, and called the May date its birthday, and January 25th its conception date. Sure, there are many jokes that can be […]

One of my favourite blogs, noupe, has a great resource post up about various plugins that use jQuery, and the cool things that they can do. jQuery is ideal because it can create impressive animations and interactions while being simple to understand and easy to use. WordPress awesomeness lies in its fact that it can […]